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Is your wardrobe filled with quality clothing or accessories you no longer wear? Donating to your local Vinnies shop is a simple way to give pre-loved items a new life while supporting people facing hardship across New South Wales.
We welcome good-quality clothing and accessories that can be resold in our shops to help fund vital community services.
We need your best
By donating quality pre-loved items to Vinnies, you are helping support Australians doing it tough, reducing waste sent to landfill, and lessening the environmental impact of the fashion industry by giving pre-loved garments a new home.
Your best donations could make a difference for good:
- A pair of shoes could provide someone with a food hamper
- Your unworn coat could go towards the cost of running short term accommodation for a woman escaping violence
- Your jeans that don’t quite fit anymore could help pay someone’s rent for a month
Ready to Donate Your Clothes?
We love your quality donations. Our simple rule of thumb is if you would give it to a mate, it is okay to donate to Vinnies!
Please ensure donated items are:
- clean
- undamaged
- good quality
- lightly worn or unworn
You can drop off donations during business hours at any of our 220+ Vinnies shops across NSW.
Donation FAQs
We accept good-quality clothing, shoes and accessories that are clean, undamaged and suitable for resale in our shops.
- Men’s, women’s and children’s clothing and accessories
- Men’s, women’s and children’s shoes (paired)
- Jewellery
- Children's toys
- Books
- CD's and DVD's
- Homewares, including manchester
Unfortunately, we're unable to accept the following items:
- Children’s furniture i.e. car seat, capsules, cots, bassinets, highchairs, prams
- Clothing/uniforms with school and business logo
- Cracked or broken homewares
- Damaged or dirty furniture
- Dangerous and chemical goods i.e.knives, swords, sharp utensils, gas bottles, paint-related
- Green waste
- Large glass and mirrors
- Mattresses of any condition
- Offensive clothing
- Oversized furniture i.e. TV unit, cabinets, non-dismantled bed frames, glass cabinets and tables
- Pillows of any condition
- Ripped, torn, stained, soil or wet clothing/bedding
- Safety equipment i.e. life jackets, defibrillators, all helmets, inflatables
- Scholar/educational textbooks
- Technology equipment i.e. computers, printers, scanners, laptops
- White goods over 10 years old i.e. fridges, dishwashers and dryers
Some of our Vinnies NSW shops can offer pickup. This is limited by our resources, if you're in NSW please call your local Vinnies shop on 13 18 12.
You can donate at any Vinnies shop across NSW during business hours. With over 220 locations, there is likely a shop near you.
Donations are carefully sorted by our teams. Suitable items are sold in Vinnies shops or online, with funds supporting vital community programs. Items that cannot be sold are recycled into textiles or repurposed as rags wherever possible, helping keep materials out of landfill. Learn more about the lifecycle of a donation on our blog.
